Sometimes videogames help to learn English Some days ago I skyped with an American friend of mine. My son has to pass an English exam next week, so lately I tried to make him to participate in our talks a little bit. He isn't good at English and he doesn't like to talk very much, but he likes my friend, who is very good in making him to talk. That time he surprised me, because he knew many words that I didn't. Our conversation was about what we had done that day. I was trying to explain we have been putting in order our garage, and that my son made a panel where hanging work tools like wrenches (a curiousity: do you know we call them CHIAVI INGLESI? Letteraly ENGLISH KEYS. I don't know why...), screwdrivers and so on. I don't usually talk about these things, so I didn't know their names at all! But he often plays videogames and especially likes a game called minecraft, where he creates a lot of buildings, but for doing that, he has to buy material and tools. So, sometimes also videogames are useful in learning a language.